Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Non‐Fiction Book (2008) Even monsters need a person

Even monsters need a person who truly wants to listen – to hear – so that someday we might find the words that are more than boxes

” —Edward Said

There is violence there and anger never resolved

Batman races against the clock as he tries to discover who Holiday is before he claims his next victim each month

they continue to morph and evolve with every retelling

Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Non‐Fiction Book (2008) Even monsters need a personNoam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the pre eminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sell out lectures. Now, in "Understanding Power", Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky's talks on the past, present and future of the politics of power. In a series of enlightening and wide ranging discussions published here for the